Posts Tagged ‘sean webby’

Tuesday, May 6th, 2014

Madison Nguyen has endorsed herself in the June primary race to succeed termed out Chuck Reed. In a mail piece that landed yesterday and paid for by Madison’s very own campaign she pens an Editorial Opinion about herself that describes herself as full of courage and leadership. Fetch thinks she’s full of something but it ain’t those two things. Click the image for a closer inspection of Madison’s self-love.

This is a sneaky and dishonest attempt to fool voters into thinking someone, other than herself, has endorsed her for Mayor. Pathetic. Fetch imagines Madison’s endorsement interview with herself went something like this:

Stoprocketship.com, fresh off of its win over the charter school Goliath Rocketship, wants everyone to know about another mind-numbing SJ mayoral debate this weekend. Make sure to order a few quadruple shot Venti something-or-other from Starbucks to stay awake if you decide to go.

GOP Gov hopeful Neil Kashkari released his first television spot yesterday and he’s wielding an ax, no really, an ax chopping wood and saying he is going to ax wasteful spending. Fetch can’t really take Neil too seriously as he is wasting $500K of his own money on the ad which we believe is the epitome of wasteful spending. You can see the ad here.

The SV Biz Journal says Republicans love them some Pinterest and Democrats love them some Twitter. 87% of both parties love them some Facebook. Check out the survey of social media platforms use by political party affiliation conducted by Harvard Institute of Politics.

Although on life support, the push to keep the Century 21 Dome standing is inching along as the State Historical Resources Commission says the movie house is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. The NRHP will decide this summer if the dome makes the cut. Tomorrow night the CSJ’s Historic Landmarks Commission will decide whether to recommend the City Council declare the iconic dome a city landmark. When it is all said and done, it may be all for not as the property owner has the final say and they see dollar signs. Gentleman, Start Your Bulldozers!

D-5 Political Consultant and council wanna-be Magdalena Carrasco is the target of these questions surrounding her ballot designation and seek the truth about where, or if, she actually is employed and by whom?

This is what the big boys call a textbook opportunity. But we’ll leave further unsolicited advice to your fellow blogger Rich Robinson. As Sgt. Hulka from Stripes says, “lighten up Francis”, now go back to obscurity.

The Mercury News editorial board thinks that PG&E is a little too cozy with the government entity tasked with regulating it, the CPUC. The Board says it’s enough to make California’s real reformer Hiram Johnson spin in his grave. Those PG&E lobbyists, past and present, must be good.

The SV Biz Journal wants you to get your drink on at yet another business Tom McEnery is providing folks with to get drunk in San Jose’s urine stained downtown. Welcome Farmers Union. We look forward to sampling every one of the 60 craft beers on tap and then calling 777-7777 to get home.

And in a major economic boom to the South Bay the Santa Clara 49ers will be hosting the Super Bowl in 2016. Congratulations Jamie Mathews, who could be our favorite local Mayor!

Now that Metro has a stack of emails, minutes and other documents from the Health Foundation, who’s Board both Teresa Alvarado and Cindy Chavez sit on, we’re sure they will have enough material to keep their keyboards clicking for days. They’ve even given their new series the catchy name, “Family Health Fiasco.” Their first post…a tale about Kathleen King fundraising while also being a government employee. What’s next?

You heard it here first, former SJ Police Chief Chris Moore has a new job. The cushy new gig is with the company that designs public safety communications networks—you know like the network that Chris spent most of his time as chief getting through congress.

Caltrans just can’t do anything right. First they bungle the Bay Bridge project by using bolts that can be defeated by rainwater, and now they are stumped as to how spell check works on a computer. Paging Armando Gomez, your city of “Milipitas” needs you.

Woolfolk has yet another piece about Supervisor Dave Cortese’s bright (?) idea to get the Merc to move into the old city hall building. If it happens, could we take over the Merc’s spot at the new city hall with the same sweetheart, rent-free deal the Merc currently enjoys?

Monday, April 8th, 2013

NBC Bay Area dropped a bomb on Santa Clara County DA Jeff Rosen this weekend. The county’s top prosecutor got caught altering time sheets to dole out paid vacation to handpicked appointees. The county attorney union’s attorney says this is a“gift of public funds” and illegal. Polish that turd Sean Webby.

Tracey Kaplan from the Mercury News piles on and discloses that County Exec Jeff Smith has ordered an investigation of Rosen’s actions and is worried about evidence being destroyed and has ordered “Mr. Transparency” not to hit the delete button or plug in the shredder. Jeffy!!!

IA let’s us know that Kansen Chu is (apparently) the only person around that’s made money from Facebook stock. Oh, and he’s running for Assembly.

The development bonanza that is the Santa Clara 49ers stadium has now spawned plans to convert a 230-acre city golf course into an “entertainment district” that Mayor Jamie Matthews implies could be a supersized Santana Row. Meanwhile, downtown San Jose continues to be a urine stained ghost town where our spies tell us tumbleweeds were seen blowing down Santa Clara Street this weekend.

Scott Herhold gives us his take on how the mayoral race is shaping up in San Jose. Clearly his “bromance” with Sam Liccardo is in full swing. And for those that gamble (George), the over/under on Herhold coming to the defense of Jeff Rosen giving away county money is –ANY minute now.

County Supervisors will starting thinking about what to do with the only building in San Jose uglier than their own: the old City Hall. Hold on to your hats, the County’s record in dealing with big projects (like the ambulance contract) and small projects (bodyguards) is not great…

Team San Jose is losing its fearless leader (and so is the airport) next year… but the City Council in San Jose renewed the contract for Team San Jose for another 5 years. Time to bring back Dan Fenton?

At a news conference in San Francisco, Mayor Ed Lee and other city leaders unveiled official marketing materials led by a logo that shows Golden Gate Bridge-style football goal posts featuring the title “SF Super Bowl.” They boasted of the need to bring the “world-class event to a world-class city,” unveiled the website SFsuperbowl.com and had an opera singer belt out “I left My Heart in San Francisco.”

Speaking of Constitutional rights being jeopardized… There is a retired San Jose Police Officer who is suing the City of San Jose “for allegedly bypassing hmi for a lieutenant’s job on at least four occasions in favor of less qualified candidates…” during his 25 year run with the Department. The case is in federal court right now. In an added twist, “The trial is expected to force current San Jose Police Chief Christopher Moore and his predecessor, Rob Davis, who is accused of specifically retaliating against Harper, to take the witness stand…” Where’s Sean Webby when you need him? (No offense, Mr. Mintz…)

Here’s some heartwarming news, a Milpitas Unified School District employee was arrested for (allegedly) lifting almost $40,000 from “study body funds“…

First, a story about how (and why) former San Jose Police Officers’ Association President George Beattie left his position at the union and headed back to work to put in some more time to pad his pension — and now he is Bobby Lopez’s direct supervisor. Awesome.

Second, there’s a story about a growing rift between San Jose Councilmember Kansen Chu and Vice Mayor Madison Nguyen, including some pretty nasty (and now very public) emails between the two. Surprise, surprise, at issue is a Vietnamese flag raising ceremony and the political implications of who was there/wasn’t there…

And with all that is going on in and around San Jose, including the aforementioned story about George Beattie, Protect San Jose took another week off. In case they’ll be back next week, here’s the City Council agenda for your Council Watch…

If you are interested in an interesting take on all things Santa Clara (and a good laugh), you should probably head over to Mission City Lantern…

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

Over the weekend, Internal Affairs let us know that Councilmember/candidate Pierluigi Oliverio uses a non-union print shop, Mayor Chuck Reed gets a cold shoulder from San Jose PD (very professional), and that Sean Webby was a good guy…

Palo Alto is getting ready to say hell no to affordable housing. The Weeklytakes a look…

Finally, proving that those that hold important positions of public trust don’t need to delay their responses to the public’s questions, DA Jeff Rosen responded to questions on San Jose Inside. And at least one question should have at least one City Councilmember in San Jose calling his attorney…

Friday, December 16th, 2011

SJPD had a win yesterday busting a notorious tagging crew… Have You Seen Us? Apparently SJPD has seen you dudes…

In other SJPD news, a man was shot and killed by an Officer last night because he “displayed threatening behavior” as he was being approached by Officers. We’ve lost count as to which OIS this is for the year… Does anyone know? Webby?

Protect San Jose chimes in on something topical… finally. Their third post in three weeks is titled, “Do Police Officers earn a fair pension?“… You can guess the answer considering the source, or you can read it yourself… (Note: It is a compelling read, but you won’t find the actual details of the retired Sergeant’s pension. Webby?)

Usually it is Cities (and Counties) that get lobbied… but the shoe is on the other foot with Palo Alto. On Monday, they will approve a contract for a group of Sacramento insiders to lobby to stop — we’re sorry “to represent its concerns” about — High Speed Rail… The contract will be with a law firm and with an outfit called the Professional Evaluation Group. Lest you think they are not connected enough, the Professional Evaluation Group is led by a guy named John Garamendi (Jr.)… (And yes, he has that winning smile…)

While we’re in Palo Alto… we can’t help but mistake Palo Alto for East Palo Alto today with the top three stories on the Weekly’s website: sketch of robbery suspect, man attacked with a bat downtown, and copper thieves. No wonder Facebook is moving… (Just kidding Mayor Espinosa…):